The leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s (PIJ) Southern Gaza division, Khaled Mansour, was killed last night, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Sunday. This comes two days the militant group’s northern division’s head, Taysir al-Jabari, was taken out. According to the Israeli military, the death of Mansour completes the …
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Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi and former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt have not received enough votes to advance in the Conservative Party’s ongoing leadership race. Six candidates remain in contention, with Rishi Sunak leading the field. Tory MPs held their first round of voting to elect a new leader on Wednesday, with …
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Problems facing the world demand statesmanship from serious leaders who simply don’t exist in the West, Milorad Dodik, the Serb member of the Bosnia-Herzegovina presidency, complained on Thursday. Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Chinese leader Xi Jinping – and Turkish head-of-state Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to some extent – are the only leaders who …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin does not respect American leadership anymore and demonstrates this lack of respect by talking about nuclear weapons “all the time,” former US President Donald Trump has complained. Speaking at a rally in Nebraska on Sunday, Trump said that unlike Joe Biden’s administration, under his leadership “America …
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Top EU leadership has been banned from entering Russia in response to the bloc’s “unfriendly actions,” which, as the Russian Foreign Ministry claims, are “driving the relationship with Russia into a deadlock.” In a lengthy statement, issued on Thursday, the ministry said that the EU sanctions policy, which has been …
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The call for sanctions was made late on Monday after von der Leyen discussed the ongoing crisis with the Prime Ministers of Belarus’ immediate neighbors – Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. “I am calling on Member States to finally approve the extended sanctions regime on the Belarusian authorities responsible for this …
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Some three dozen officers aboard the USS ‘Bonhomme Richard’ were named as responsible for the loss of the ship, which caught fire near a San Diego naval base in July 2020, according to a 400-page investigation report obtained by the Associated Press on Tuesday. While one particular sailor, Seaman Apprentice …
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“The board of directors and party leaders of the CDU and CDU must draw the conclusions from the election debacle in the federal elections on September 26, 2021 and resign immediately,” the party’s informal conservative wing, the Values Union, said in a statement. The group argued that Armin Laschet, the …
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House Republicans today voted to remove Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney from her leadership position in the chamber. While some might paint Cheney’s ousting as a fracture within the GOP, it’s important to note that her supporters don’t actually appear to be from within the Republican Party. Rather, the only figures …
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Cheney, the daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney and a staunch neoconservative, repeatedly found herself at odds with her party colleagues over Trump and his administration’s policies. A majority of House Republicans voted to oust Cheney from her position – which she had held since January 2019 – on …
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